linkedin / linkedin/data-integration-library
Adding text extractor for extracting unstructured output
- Dominant language
- Java
- Stars
- 34
- Forks
- 22
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Description
Currently DIL supports many structured format like CSV, Json, Avro and also many compression formats. Unstructured text format is supported only through FileDumpExtractor, which dumps output to HDFS. With FileDumpExtractor, output cannot be passed to any converter. Text Extractor should be supported, which can extract output in any format and pass it to some converter for further ETL rather than directly pushing this to HDFS. This is useful in cases where we want to get some URL output and then apply some custom parsing to get the required output.
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Research direction
Start by locating FileDumpExtractor and the existing extractor-to-converter flow. Review how structured extractors pass data onward, then define the Text Extractor behavior for unstructured output and verify that converted results no longer require direct HDFS dumping. Add or update tests covering extraction followed by conversion.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100